Cursive Signature Generator
Type your name and see it at once in six signature scripts, then download the one you like as a transparent PNG at three times size or as an SVG. The fonts are bundled with this page rather than fetched from a font service, so the render is identical on every visit and nothing about your name is sent anywhere. There is also a drawing pad if you would rather sign by hand with a mouse, a finger or a stylus.
The PNG comes out transparent at 3× so it stays sharp in a document, and the SVG stays sharp at any size. Copy puts the image on the clipboard where the browser allows it, and downloads it where it does not.
Nothing you type or draw leaves this page. The six scripts are bundled with the page itself, the image is built in your browser, and there is no upload and no account. The image is drawn in the page from fonts bundled with it, so the same name renders the same on every visit. A typed signature is a picture of a name; whether it binds anyone depends on the agreement and the law where you are, not on the font.
Common questions
- Is a generated signature legally binding?
- On its own, no. What this makes is a picture of your name in a script font, and a picture is not consent. Electronic signature law in most places, the US ESIGN Act and eIDAS in the EU among them, asks whether the person intended to sign and whether the signature can be tied to them and to that document. A PNG dropped into a file carries none of that on its own. Inside an agreement both sides accept, on an email you sent, or in a document a signing service records and timestamps, it can form part of a valid signature. For anything that must stand up on its own, use a signing service or sign on paper.
- Does the PNG have a transparent background?
- Yes. The canvas is never filled before the text is drawn, so everything except the ink is fully transparent. That is what lets the same file sit on white paper, on a coloured letterhead or over a scanned contract without a white box around it. It is exported at three times the on-screen size, so a signature that looks right at 360 pixels wide arrives at 1,080 and stays sharp when a PDF is printed.
- Can I draw my signature instead of typing it?
- Yes. Switch the Mode control to Draw and sign on the pad with a mouse, a trackpad, a finger or a stylus. The size control is relabelled Pen and sets how thick the line is, the ink colour is the one you picked, and Clear starts over. The download is cropped to the edge of your ink plus a small margin, so you do not get a large rectangle of empty space around a small signature. Drawn signatures are never stored: they exist only until you clear the pad or leave.
- Which fonts does it use?
- Six script faces from Google Fonts: Dancing Script, Great Vibes, Sacramento, Allura, Homemade Apple and Mr Dafoe. Great Vibes and Allura are formal copperplate hands, Sacramento and Dancing Script are lighter and more modern, Mr Dafoe is a brush script, and Homemade Apple is the one that reads as actual handwriting rather than calligraphy. They are self-hosted with the page, so no request goes to a font service when you load it.
- Is my name uploaded anywhere?
- No. The name is measured, drawn and turned into a file entirely in your browser, and there is no server involved at any step. Your name and the choices you made, the font, the ink, the slant and the size, are kept in this browser's local storage so the tool looks the same next time; that data never leaves the machine, and clearing your site data removes it. A signature you draw by hand is never stored at all.
- What is the difference between the PNG and the SVG download?
- The PNG is a fixed grid of pixels and looks the same everywhere, which is why it is the safer choice for a document you are sending on. The SVG is text plus a reference to the font by name, so it stays crisp at any size but only renders identically on a machine where that font is installed. Use the SVG when you are going to open it in a design tool, and the PNG for everything else.
The image is drawn in the page from fonts bundled with it, so the same name renders the same on every visit. A typed signature is a picture of a name; whether it binds anyone depends on the agreement and the law where you are, not on the font.